Notes from the Editors, December 1998
December 1, 1998
Back in 1972, when one of us was living in Toronto, the Canadian national hockey team played a series of much publicized games against the Soviet Union. Horror of horrors,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: United States
Boring From Within the Bourgeois Press, Part I
November 1, 1998
A. Kent MacDougall (1931–2021) was award-winning mainstream reporter, journalism professor, and long-time Monthly Review author. For further information see the Notes from the Editors, Monthly Review 73, no. 9 (forthcoming in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 1998
October 1, 1998
Even at the height of Hollywood’s political consciousness, which ended in the notorious Cold War repression of the Hollywood Ten and many others in the industry, American movies usually rendered… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 1998
July 1, 1998
We write in early June, and these will be the last “Notes from the Editors” until some time in September when things will surely be a lot different from what… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 1998
May 1, 1998
The fifteenth annual Socialist Scholars Conference (SSC) was held this year on the weekend of March 22–23, several weeks earlier than usual, but at the accustomed venue, the Borough of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 1998
April 1, 1998
Readers may remember that in last year’s summer issue on labor we talked about a roundtable organized by MR for activists in the labor movement and held in our office… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 1998
February 1, 1998
Monthly Review was chosen for a 1997 Frederick Douglass Award, an award given annually by the North Star Fund. We were of course pleased to be so honored and thought… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 1998
January 1, 1998
MR has always been known for its style as well as its substance. We’ve always aimed for depth of analysis without sacrificing clarity and accessibility. We’ve also tried to keep… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 1997
December 1, 1997
The New Yorker dated October 20-27 carries, along with a generous menu of futurology, a sensational article on the past and present. It is entitled “The Return of Karl Marx,”… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 1997
November 1, 1997
Ecology, a.k.a. environmental studies, is a relatively new area of scientific interest, mostly a product of the second half of the twentieth century and rapidly growing as the century draws… READ MORE